MARICHIKO, POEMS OF LOVE: If I think

IF I THINK

If I thought I could go away
to come to you,
ten thousand miles would be a mile.
But we’re in the same city
and I dare not see you,
and a mile
It is longer than a million miles.

(Marichico)

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